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Population in Wales grew substantially during this period. A number of Welsh towns seem to have benefited disproportionately from the growth in population due to freedom from plague and other epidemic diseases, and may be the tendency to marry younger to increase the child-bearing span of the wife and the number of children born. The structure of the social order was unaltered at that period. Inflation threatened all ranks of society with the prospect of seeing their income savagely eroded. Most of the population, however, fell within the less fortunate. In spite of the widening social...

Population in Wales grew substantially during this period. A number of Welsh towns seem to have benefited disproportionately from the growth in population due to freedom from plague and other epidemic diseases, and may be the tendency to marry younger to increase the child-bearing span of the wife and the number of children born. The structure of the social order was unaltered at that period. Inflation threatened all ranks of society with the prospect of seeing their income savagely eroded. Most of the population, however, fell within the less fortunate. In spite of the widening social cleavage, there was very little sign of a war between rich and poor, even if the gap in the standard of living between privileged and unprivileged in terms of housing, dress and diet had widened.